Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs inside the female breast and leads the incidence of cancer in women.
Commonly used drugs for breast cancer chemotherapy are cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, doxorubicin, etc. These drugs have more side effects and can also cause a range of symptoms such as chest tightness and shortness of breath. There are also some drugs with less side effects, such as paclitaxel. Of course the price will be correspondingly higher and the drug reaction after chemotherapy will be less.
Chemotherapy drugs are more or less likely to cause drug reactions after use, and the symptoms are different for each person depending on their body type. Some people experience gastrointestinal reactions such as nausea and vomiting after chemotherapy, others experience central nervous symptoms such as dizziness and headache, and most patients experience hair loss, which will disappear by the end of the chemotherapy cycle.
All chemotherapy drugs have some corrosive harmful effects on the body’s blood vessels and skin. The PICC catheter allows the chemotherapy drugs to reach the superior or inferior vena cava directly for faster delivery. The catheter can be kept in the body for up to a year, which reduces the pain of repeated punctures in cancer patients, but PICC catheters require weekly catheter maintenance and flushing, which is more expensive than regular IV infusions.